Benjamin Howard (Missouri)

Benjamin Howard (1760-18 September 1814) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-KY 5) from 1807 to 1810 (succeeding Jown Fowler and preceding William T. Barry) and Governor of Missouri from 1809 to 1812 (succeeding Meriwether Lewis and preceding William Clark).

Biography
Benjamin Howard was born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1760, and he was elected to the General Assembly in 1800 and served in the US House of Representatives from 1807 to 1810. President James Madison named him Governor of the Louisiana Territory and Missouri in 1809, and he resigned in 1812 to serve as Brigadier-General of the Eighth Military Department. He attacked Sauk and Fox positions in Illinois and founded Fort Clark at Peoria, and he fell ill and died on the way back in 1814.